Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 16, 2014
Transcript:
Oops In the first soccer World Cup in 1930, a USA physician knocked himself out with chloroform by accidentally breaking a bottle of it while running onto the field to treat a player. Early movie star Martha Mansfield died onset when her Civil War. Costume ignited during the making of the film The Warrens of Virginia in 1923. For mom! Englishman Geoff Smith spent 147 days buried in a coffin underground in 1999, and tribute to his mother, who was buried for 100 days during a similar feat in 1968.
And HOW did Ms. Mansfield’s costume get on fire? As for the first World Cup, the doc should’ve opened the chloroform as soon as he got to the player.